The “Treasure of Benghazi” was stolen from a Libyan bank vault last May. The collection includes more than 7,000 coins, jewelry, medallions, bracelets, anklets, necklaces, earrings, rings, and armbands made of precious metals and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old. Several hundred of the coins have since turned up in Egypt, according to unconfirmed […]

Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Police recovered a wood sarcophagus, two wooden statues, and seven pieces of inscribed limestone that had been stolen from Saqqara. At a recent symposium at the Royal Ontario Museum, archaeologists discussed the excavation of Godin Tepe, which is located in western Iran. Some think the unusual openings in the mud-brick oval’s walls […]